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According to an unconfirmed report, David Wallace is dead.The End of the Tour · 2015 — 第 1 / 17 章 · 4'56" · B2
Lipsky Pitches the Wallace Story, Explained：once in a generation
Lipsky's colleague calls with the news that David Wallace is dead, and the film cuts back to when Lipsky first pitched a story about him. Everyone at the magazine calls Wallace a once-in-a-generation talent. 'This is the sort of stuff I should be doing,' Lipsky argues, 'not 500 words on boy bands.'
あらすじ
The film opens with a phone call: a colleague tells David Lipsky that David Foster Wallace has died. A radio memorial quotes Lipsky's tribute, then the story jumps back to 1996. At a party and later at Rolling Stone, Lipsky pushes his editor to let him follow Wallace on his book tour and write a real story.
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away from homemaroonedon probationclear it with someone
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このシーンの表現
once in a generation
extremely rare
Bob defends the exception by calling such a writer a once-in-a-generation figure like Hemingway or Pynchon.
A voice like hers comes once in a generation.
このシーンの他の表現
- away from home
far from home
- marooned
stranded and cut off
- on probation
in a trial period
- clear it with someone
get approval from someone
- take a guess
try to guess
このシーンのメモ一覧
75 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ
a kind of
No, It must be some sort of a college prank or something.discovered lifeless
He was found dead, an apparent suicide, on Friday night.force something open
"To read David Foster Wallace was to feel your eyelids pulled open."infinitive subject: The infinitive To read acts as the subject, paired with was to feel as its complement.
"To read David Foster Wallace was to feel your eyelids pulled open."The final sound of eyelids links into pulled, so the words fuse.
"To read David Foster Wallace was to feel your eyelids pulled open."far from home
In his radio essay Lipsky contrasts writers who chase the away-from-home experience with Wallace's domestic voice.
Some writers specialize in the 'away from home' experience.a bond that cannot be broken
forge an unbreakable bond with readers.participial phrase: Looking for explains the purpose of slipping in, not a second main verb.
You didn't slip into the books looking for a story, information, but for a particular experience...concessive clause: Although concedes a contrast: no overt guidance, yet you still become yourself.
to not give overt direction, although, of course, you end up becoming yourself.going to — Everyday speech for future plans; avoid in writing.
No. I was gonna be... The big thing, when I was little...as a sideline
Reading was just this kind of fun, sort of weird thing that I did on the side.away from the usual path
Our mother had taken us off the track of the nice life we'd been on.In fast speech sort of reduces to sorta, with of nearly silent.
We'll see. I'm sort of on probation. Good luck.fucking (intensifier) — Crude intensifier; never in polite or formal speech.
The guy's been fuckin' canonized.without counting
"A thousand pages, not including footnotes," the competition has been obliterated.as if
It's as though Paul Bunyan had joined the NFL...damn — A blunt curse for bad news; keep it away from elders.
Shit.The tt in gotta turns into a soft flap and slides into clear.
But you gotta clear it with Legal, okay?have got to — Spoken shorthand; too casual for formal writing.
But you gotta clear it with Legal, okay?no one of this kind before
There hasn't been a writer like this. Okay?bring to an end
He's finishing up a book tour, and I want to go with him.「Lipsky Pitches the Wallace Story」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene sets up the whole film as a gap between the legend and the man. Wallace is already 'canonized' before Lipsky meets him, praised in print as a plutonium-dense, satirical quiz-kid opus and compared to Paul Bunyan in the NFL. The magazine's editor treats him as an event: 'Once in a generation maybe. Hemingway, Pynchon.' Lipsky's pitch is really about himself: he wants to be the writer who gets close to genius, not the guy doing '500 words on boy bands.' Wallace, by contrast, sounds modest and self-deprecating in his own interview. The death announcement already hangs over the assignment, turning it into something like an elegy before it begins.
Theme
AmbitionLipsky talks his way into a rare assignment, chasing the prestige of writing about a genius rather than settling for pop fluff.
Death & griefThe film opens on Wallace's death, and the memorial framing makes the later pitch feel like something already lost.
このチャプターで学べること
- A death notice frames the whole story before it rewinds.
- The pitch is really about wanting a bigger life.
- Bob's guessing game hides a door being opened.
- Literary fame here is measured in magazine pages.
発音のポイント
- eyelids pulled — The final sound of eyelids links into pulled, so the words fuse.
- sort of — In fast speech sort of reduces to sorta, with of nearly silent.
- gotta clear — The tt in gotta turns into a soft flap and slides into clear.
"To read David Foster Wallace was to feel your eyelids pulled open."Lipsky's tribute line, read on the radio: reading Wallace jolted you awake and forced you to see.
This is the sort of stuff I should be doing, not 500 words on boy bands.Lipsky's reason for wanting the assignment: serious literary journalism beats writing disposable pop-culture pieces.
It's as though Paul Bunyan had joined the NFL...A line from the magazine review, mocking how overwhelming Wallace's debut seemed next to everyone else.
Our mother had taken us off the track of the nice life we'd been on.Wallace's memory of childhood, when his mother moved the family away from comfort into an artists' enclave.
このシーンについての質問
Who calls Lipsky at the start, and what does he say?
A colleague named Bob calls to tell him that David Foster Wallace is dead. He says it comes from an unconfirmed report, and asks whether Lipsky, who knew Wallace, can confirm it.
Why does Lipsky want to follow Wallace on the book tour?
He wants a serious literary assignment instead of short pop-culture pieces. He tells his editor he should be doing 'the sort of stuff' like this, not '500 words on boy bands.'
What does 'once in a generation' mean?
It means a talent so rare that one may appear only once in a lifetime. The editor uses it to argue Wallace deserves a full Rolling Stone story, naming Hemingway and Pynchon as peers.
Why does the editor tell Lipsky to clear it with Legal?
Because Rolling Stone had never interviewed a writer before, so the magazine's legal team has to approve the assignment before Lipsky can go.
Does the editor agree to send Lipsky on the tour?
He doesn't say yes outright. He tells Lipsky to talk to Jann, and warns him, 'There better be a story there.' Lipsky answers, 'There will be.'
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次のチャプター · 第 2 章out of respectDave Wallace Doesn't Drink
再生中 · 第 1 章once in a generationLipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
第 2 章out of respectDave Wallace Doesn't Drink
第 3 章shape the impressionWallace and Lipsky First Meeting
第 4 章channel surfingWallace on Why We Feel Empty
第 5 章comes with the territoryWallace on Why He Isn't Married
第 6 章in a heartbeatDave Wallace Offers Lipsky a Room
第 7 章security blanketLipsky Asks About the Bandanna
第 8 章about as sexy asWallace Recalls His Eight Days
第 9 章all downhill from hereWallace Reads at The Hungry Mind
第 10 章make eyes at someoneWallace Calls Lipsky's Girlfriend
第 11 章self-absorbedWallace on Being Shy and Egotistical
第 12 章come on to someoneWallace Tells Lipsky to Stay Away
第 13 章fauxWallace and Lipsky's Parking Lot Fight
第 14 章sleepwalk throughWallace Fears Liking the Attention
第 15 章autobiographicalLipsky Asks Wallace About Heroin
第 16 章spiritual crisisDavid Foster Wallace on Depression
第 17 章put my foot downWallace Dances at a Baptist Church第 1 / 17 章 · 残り約 66 分